Bitcoin Audible

"There has never been a more secure, scarce, valuable, transportable, decentralized and networked asset in all of humanity’s history. It’s more mobile than gold. It appreciates faster than property. It’s supply is fixed unlike stocks and bonds. It’s payment network is faster and cheaper than Visa’s" - Akarsh Nalawade With Lightning exploding on the scene and becoming the default means of interaction with the Bitcoin system, legal tender going live in El Salvador, the massive hash rate migration, and so much more, Bitcoin is becoming the impossible to ignore. Lindy in full display, Bitcoin may be doing more than simply winning, it may have already won. First time author Akarsh brings us a fun, short piece making the case that the battle is already over, we are simply waiting for the dust to settle. Check out the original piece on Medium and the other works by Akarsh at the link below: https://akarshnalawade01.medium.com/bitcoin-has-already-won-ea028936f016 Don't forget to check out our awesome sponsors! 5% off the BitBox02 with code "GUY," your bank grade digital vault for your Bitcoin keys from Shiftcrypto.ch And secure your Bitcoin future by starting your automatic savings plan at SwanBitcoin.com/guy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bitcoinaudible/message

Proof of stake, versus proof of work. Isn’t POW super wasteful, while POS is the cost free alternative that obviously is as equally secure? Are we throwing hashes into the wind for no reason, or is there something fundamentally wrong with this comparison? Find out in Episode #6 of Shitcoin Insider. Subscribe to the show, don't forget to check out Bitcoin Audible for tons of other deep dives into the nature of Bitcoin and Proof of work vs Proof of Stake, and check us out on Twitter here. (Link: https://x.com/shitcoininsider) Host Links ⁠Guy on Nostr ⁠(Link: http://tinyurl.com/2xc96ney) ⁠Guy on X ⁠(Link: https://twitter.com/theguyswann) Guy on Instagram (Link: https://www.instagram.com/theguyswann) Guy on TikTok (Link: https://www.tiktok.com/@theguyswann) Guy on YouTube (Link: https://www.youtube.com/@theguyswann) ⁠Bitcoin Audible on X⁠ (Link: https://twitter.com/BitcoinAudible) The Guy Swann Network Broadcast Room on Keet (Link: https://tinyurl.com/3na6v839) Check out our awesome sponsors! Fold: The best way to buy, use, and earn #Bitcoin on everything you do! Sats back on your debit card, gift cards, auto-buys, round-ups, you name it. Fold is the true bitcoiner's banking. Get 20K sats for FREE using referral code bitcoinaudible.com/fold Ready for best-in-class self custody? Get the Jade here and use discount code 'GUY' to get 10% off (Link: bitcoinaudible.com/jade) Trying to BUY BITCOIN? River, secure, trusted, bitcoin only, lightning enabled, simple. (Link: https://bitcoinaudible.com/river) Bitcoin Games! Get 10% off the best Bitcoin board game in the world, HODLUP! Or any of the other great games from the Free Market Kids! Use code GUY10 at checkout for 10% off your cart! (Link: https://www.freemarketkids.com/collections/games-1) Bitcoin Custodial Multisig Want to get into Bitcoin but not ready for self custody? Use custodial multisig for the best way to distribute trust across multiple institutions and even jurisdictions! Check out OnRamp. (Link: BitcoinAudible.com/onramp) Education & HomeSchooling Get the lesson in real economics that you never got in school, and teach your kids the truth, not the statist insanity that is Keynesianism. Liberty Classroom is the invaluable resource you are looking for! (Link: BitcoinAudible.com/Liberty)

"Long before we had the Bitcoin energy debate, we had the gold resource cost debate. The contours were similar: the costs associated with gold refining and extraction were a waste; they were too great relative to a mere fiat standard in which notes could be printed for virtually nothing." - Nic Carter Great piece today from Nic Carter published on Bitcoin Magazine. The energy cost debate of Bitcoin might not be quite what it seems to be. And we can take a lesson from history by understanding the long, ongoing debate about the resource costs of the Gold standard. Check out the original article at the link below, plus tons of great stuff from Bitcoin Magazine: https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/bitcoin-and-gold-energy-debate Don't forget to check out our awesome sponsors! 5% off the BitBox02 with code "GUY," your bank grade digital vault for your Bitcoin keys from Shiftcrypto.ch And secure your Bitcoin future by starting your automatic savings plan at SwanBitcoin.com/guy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bitcoinaudible/message

“Farzan and her family traveled by foot, car and train thousands of miles through Iran and Turkey, finally making it to Germany in 2017. Along the way, dishonest middlemen and common thieves stole everything they brought with them, including their jewelry and cash. At one point, their boat crashed, and more belongings sank to the bottom of the Mediterranean. It’s a tragic story familiar to so many refugees. But in this case, something was different. Through it all, Farzan was able to keep her bitcoin, because she hid the seed to her Bitcoin wallet on a piece of tiny, innocuous-looking paper. Thieves could not take what they could not find.” - Alex Gladstein You don't want to miss another excellent piece in the incredible ongoing works by Alex Gladstein. Thanks to Bitcoin Magazine for this incredible work and continuing to put out so much incredible stuff for the Bitcoin space! Check out the article below for links to dig further and a huge collection of other excellent works at Bitcoin Magazine: https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/bitcoin-financial-freedom-in-afghanistan Don't forget to check out our awesome sponsors! 5% off the BitBox02 with code "GUY," your bank grade digital vault for your Bitcoin keys from Shiftcrypto.ch And secure your Bitcoin future by starting your automatic savings plan at SwanBitcoin.com/guy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bitcoinaudible/message

Dave Smith has finally done a Bitcoin episode! For those of you who missed this, I am making it available on my own feed and for those of you who do not know Dave Smith, he has the best podcast on libertarianism out there. It is absolutely one to check out if you haven't yet. Check out the links below to watch this episode on youtube, or explore the other great content on Part of the Problem. Part of the Problem with Dave Smith: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAqs3DOXqCc https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/part-of-the-problem/id833706616 Don't forget to check out our awesome sponsors! 5% off the BitBox02 with code "GUY," your bank grade digital vault for your Bitcoin keys from Shiftcrypto.ch And secure your Bitcoin future by starting your automatic savings plan at SwanBitcoin.com/guy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bitcoinaudible/message

"Bitcoin fails as a money b/c of its naive monetary policy. Many people think government printing too much is evil, so a fixed money supply must be good. The reality: a money that cannot expand would crush the economy and put us all in poverty. Here’s why and how to fix it." - Natasha Che Today we have a fun one to go through. A twitter thread by Natasha Che who was eager to explain why Bitcoin's monetary policy would ultimately lead to economic destitution and poverty. A prime example of "I've just discovered Bitcoin, and I'm here to fix it." Is any of her theory correct? Or does she base her entire theory upon false assumptions about money? Find the entire thread and comments at the link below: https://twitter.com/RealNatashaChe/status/1428431581077667842 Don't forget to check out our awesome sponsors! 5% off the BitBox02 with code "GUY," your bank grade digital vault for your Bitcoin keys from Shiftcrypto.ch And secure your Bitcoin future by starting your automatic savings plan at SwanBitcoin.com/guy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bitcoinaudible/message

“This technology goes around blockades and government restrictions, it allows you to move value without trusting anyone, it connects you to the world, and it allows you to empower yourself and do things that are otherwise impossible,” he said. “It has created hope for those who want change.” Today Alex Gladstein takes us on another Bitcoin journey around the world, this time to Cuba. A communist regime where dissent is illegal, where 70% of the value of the currency is stolen by the government in the official conversion, & where the chance to accumulate wealth and engage in trade is a privilege for the few. With Bitcoin and internet finding their way to this lost country, a chance for a better future may be on the horizon. Don't miss another incredible piece from Gladstein & Bitcoin Magazine. Check out the original at Bitcoin Magazine, plus the other amazing works recently published over there at the link below: https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/cubas-bitcoin-revolution Don't forget to check out our awesome sponsors! 5% off the BitBox02 with code "GUY," your bank grade digital vault for your Bitcoin keys from Shiftcrypto.ch And secure your Bitcoin future by starting your automatic savings plan at SwanBitcoin.com/guy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bitcoinaudible/message

"By all extant metrics in security system review, this system should have failed instantaneously, at every possible layer. And, to be fair, it has failed at other layers – BitCoin thefts have occurred, in the meta-code that surrounds the core technology itself. But the core technology actually works, and has continued to work, to a degree not everyone predicted. Time to enjoy being wrong. What the heck is going on here?" - Dan Kaminsky Today we read an excellent blast from the past by legend Dan Kaminsky who saw Bitcoin as an inevitable disaster that he couldn't wait to tear apart, only to be stopped at every tactic he used by code that "simply knew better." We lost Dan this past year from complications due to diabetes, and it's sad to lose such a major contributor to the security of the internet. RIP Dan, your contributions won't be forgotten. I Tried Hacking Bitcoin And I Failed: https://www.businessinsider.com/dan-kaminsky-highlights-flaws-bitcoin-2013-4 Don't forget your goodies from our awesome sponsors! 5% off the BitBox02 with code "GUY," your bank grade digital vault for your Bitcoin keys from Shiftcrypto.ch And secure your Bitcoin future by starting your automatic savings plan at SwanBitcoin.com/guy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bitcoinaudible/message

"And it’s easier to sensa­tion­alize things for pageviews or polit­ical gain. For example, it’s commonly said that the Bitcoin network uses more energy than some countries. That’s true, but then so does Google, Youtube, Netflix, Facebook, Amazon, the cruise industry, Christmas lights, house­hold drying machines, private jets, the zinc industry, and basically any other sizable platform or industry. From that list, Bitcoin’s energy usage is the closest to that of the cruise indus­try’s energy usage, but bitcoins are used by more people, and the network scales far better." - Lyn Alden Today we read an amazing and comprehensive view of the entire argument around Bitcoin and energy with all of the fallacies and misunderstandings. Is Bitcoin's energy use really a problem? Find out! Check out the full article with tons of extra to help visualize the arguments and explore further at the Swan Bitcoin blog: https://www.swanbitcoin.com/bitcoins-energy-usage-is-not-a-problem-heres-why-by-lyn-alden/ Don't forget your goodies from our awesome sponsors! 5% off the BitBox02 with code "GUY," your bank grade digital vault for your Bitcoin keys from Shiftcrypto.ch And secure your Bitcoin future by starting your automatic savings plan at SwanBitcoin.com/guy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bitcoinaudible/message

"Bitcoin is a network, a money, a language, a system of rules, & a clock. Bitcoin is backed by Truth" - Guy Swann Links to other works mentioned in the show today for further digging and study of these concepts in detail. Plus a really funny clip on the ridiculousness of the English language: Dergigi's "Bitcoin is Time" https://bitcoinaudible.com/bitcoin-is-time/ Gallagher on the English Language: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mfz3kFNVopk Shelling Out: The Origins of Money: https://bitcoinaudible.com/shelling-out-the-origins-of-money/ Money, Blockchains & Social Scalability: https://bitcoinaudible.com/money-blockchains-and-social-scalability/ Don't forget your goodies from our awesome sponsors! 5% off the BitBox02 with code "GUY," your bank grade digital vault for your Bitcoin keys from Shiftcrypto.ch And secure your Bitcoin future by starting your automatic savings plan at SwanBitcoin.com/guy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bitcoinaudible/message

The word “fiat” is growing more aggrandized in the modern lexicon, however, despite its increasing popularity it is often ill defined or misused. I regularly observe people falsely call Bitcoin a fiat currency. This is thanks, not least of all, to the layman’s poor grasp of history and money. Fiat is of Latin origin, meaning authoritative sanction; a decree, command or order. Fiat does not mean “backed by nothing” or “redeemable for nothing” or “pegged to nothing.” - HAC A walk through the history of monetary expansion, the constant, and inevitable consequences, and how Bitcoin is set to change the fundamental flaw through which such manipulation is even possible. We are entering a new world. Are you ready? Some other links to check out! • Fiat Lux: The Origins of Modern Money: https://heavilyarmedclown.medium.com/fiat-lux-the-origins-of-modern-money-469dbc47567b • WTF Happened in 1971?: https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/ • History of Money and Banking in the United States: https://cdn.mises.org/History%20of%20Money%20and%20Banking%20in%20the%20United%20States%20The%20Colonial%20Era%20to%20World%20War%20II_2.pdf • What Bitcoin Did: https://www.whatbitcoindid.com/podcast/wtf-is-happening-in-2020 Check out tons of other great works & discussion at BitcoinAudible.com! Search the library for any topic or work you would like to hear, including other great pieces from Erik Cason. Don't forget your goodies from our awesome sponsors! 5% off the BitBox02 with code "GUY," your bank grade digital vault for your Bitcoin keys from Shiftcrypto.ch And secure your Bitcoin future by starting your automatic savings plan at SwanBitcoin.com/guy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bitcoinaudible/message

"Here's the deal with the US infrastructure bill: A new provision has been added that expands the Tax Code's definition of "broker" to capture nearly everyone in crypto, including non-custodial actors like miners, forcing them all to KYC users. This is not a drill" - Jake Chervinsky The government is trying to sneak in an incredibly arduous and expansive redefinition of the tax code that could be interpreted as so broad to essentially encompass every computer and piece of software running in the Bitcoin industry. This will be a disaster for the open monetary network within the United States. Today we read a great thread breaking down the issue from Jake Chervinsky and talk at length about what we can do. Take a short time to call your senator or representative or use the resist.bot to automatically send an email at the below links: guyswann.com/senator guyswann.com/representative guyswann.com/resist Check out tons of other great works & discussion at BitcoinAudible.com! Search the library for any topic or work you would like to hear, including other great pieces from Erik Cason. Don't forget your goodies from our awesome sponsors! 5% off the BitBox02 with code "GUY," your bank grade digital vault for your Bitcoin keys from Shiftcrypto.ch And secure your Bitcoin future by starting your automatic savings plan at SwanBitcoin.com/guy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bitcoinaudible/message

"Many tellings of El Salvador’s story have largely overlooked and understated the role of the Lightning Network. But make no mistake: any country could have adopted bitcoin five or eight years ago. The base layer hasn’t changed much. The new ingredient, the innovation that has made this possible and is opening up all kinds of possibilities for the future, is Lightning.” - Roy Sheinfeld Today we dive back into Lightning in another excellent article from Breez Tech founder Roy Sheinfeld exploring how Lightning has brought us to today, and how to scale it to the entire world. Even though it's often thought of as a part of the background regarding the recent El Salvador announcement, to the contrary, it's truly at the center of everything that is happening. With a major shout out to Michael Peterson from Bitcoin beach and the Lightning proof of concept, we read Roy's excellent article, "Scaling Lightning: To El Zonte... And Beyond!" Link to the article for further reading and links to related services: https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/scaling-lighting-el-zonte For the best resource on news, information, essays, and education in the Bitcoin space, don't forget to check out the incredible BitcoinMagazine and the LTBNetwork for other shows all about the developments in this ecosystem! Check out tons of other great works & discussion at BitcoinAudible.com! Search the library for any topic or work you would like to hear, including other great pieces from Erik Cason. Don't forget your goodies from our awesome sponsors! 5% off the BitBox02 with code "GUY," your bank grade digital vault for your Bitcoin keys from Shiftcrypto.ch And secure your Bitcoin future by starting your automatic savings plan at SwanBitcoin.com/guy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bitcoinaudible/message

“Independence is financial,” Abukhdeir told me. “If we don’t have financial freedom, nothing is going to change.” - Alex Gladstein Another brilliant addition to the Gladstein series from Bitcoin Magazine. Gladstein has been investigating Bitcoin's benefits for people all over the globe, those in the first world, the third, connected to the modern banking system, the entirely unbanked, those stuck under oppressive regimes, monetary colonialization, & behind walls of political tyranny. Today he takes a deep dive into Palestine and how they have ben bled dry of their capital and manufacturing base over 50 years in significant part through a monetary and banking system completely controlled by external powers. And how Bitcoin may be a spark of hope to begin changing that harsh reality. Could Bitcoin be Palestine's Currency of Freedom? https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/can-bitcoin-bring-palestine-freedom For the best resource on news, information, essays, and education in the Bitcoin space, don't forget to check out the incredible BitcoinMagazine and the LTBNetwork for other shows all about the developments in this ecosystem! Check out tons of other great works & discussion at BitcoinAudible.com! Search the library for any topic or work you would like to hear, including other great pieces from Erik Cason. Don't forget your goodies from our awesome sponsors! 5% off the BitBox02 with code "GUY," your bank grade digital vault for your Bitcoin keys from Shiftcrypto.ch And secure your Bitcoin future by starting your automatic savings plan at SwanBitcoin.com/guy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bitcoinaudible/message

A great piece today detailing out the different kinds, the nuances & the long history of inflation. What misconceptions do we still have about inflation? What are the major correlating factors? And what can we do to protect ourselves in different environments? All this and more in another of Lyn Alden's incredible pieces from her investment newsletter. The Ultimate Guide to Inflation: https://www.lynalden.com/inflation/#investing Check out tons of other great works & discussion at BitcoinAudible.com! Search the library for any topic or work you would like to hear, including other great pieces from Erik Cason. Don't forget your goodies from our awesome sponsors! 5% off the BitBox02 with code "GUY," your bank grade digital vault for your Bitcoin keys from Shiftcrypto.ch And secure your Bitcoin future by starting your automatic savings plan at SwanBitcoin.com/guy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bitcoinaudible/message

"Owning bitcoin is often put in contrast to owning stock in a company that produces a good or service. In virtue of the company producing a good or service and receiving money for the good or service, stock in that company is said to have intrinsic value. Methods of calculation of the intrinsic value of a stock usually involve calculating the value of the assets the company has and/or the expected future earnings. Bitcoin is not a company and produces no goods or services — so it lacks intrinsic value. So goes the criticism." - Bradley Rettler Why is it so difficult for people to wrap their heads around the idea of Bitcoin's value? Its always met with criticisms like "but it doesn't have intrinsic value," or "but its not backed by anything." In this context, what does intrinsic value even mean, and does Bitcoin have any of it? Dr. Bradley Rettler brings us a great breakdown at Bitcoin Magazine on the philosophy of value & what, if anything, actually has intrinsic value at all. Another Way to Think About Bitcoin's Value: https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/bitcoin-intrinsic-value-definition Check out tons of other great works & discussion at BitcoinAudible.com! Search the library for any topic or work you would like to hear, including other great pieces from Erik Cason. Don't forget your goodies from our awesome sponsors! 5% off the BitBox02 with code "GUY," your bank grade digital vault for your Bitcoin keys from Shiftcrypto.ch And $10 in sats for FREE by starting your automatic savings plan at SwanBitcoin.com/guy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bitcoinaudible/message

"For decades, economists have pointed to 17th-century tulipmania as a warning about the perils of the free market. Writers and historians have reveled in the absurdity of the event. The incident even provides the backdrop for the new film Tulip Fever, based on a novel of the same name by Deborah Moggach. The only problem: none of these stories are true." - Lorraine Boissoneault What if every single time Bitcoin critics derided the Bitcoin phenomenon as nothing but market madness, a mirror of the obvious insanity of the Tulip craze in 17th century Dutch markets... what if they were actually referring to something that never really happened? What was the Tulip bubble really and was it exactly what it was made out to be? Or something far more boring? Dont miss this excellent article from Smithsonian Mag and author Lorraine Boissoneault that digs into the truth behind the myth, and about the not so manic Tulip Mania. Link the the original article, plus the source work by Anne Goldgar who did extensive research and found out the truth behind the myth: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/there-never-was-real-tulip-fever-180964915/ https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/T/bo5414939.html Check out tons of other great works & discussion at BitcoinAudible.com! Search the library for any topic or work you would like to hear, including other great pieces from Erik Cason. Don't forget your goodies from our awesome sponsors! 5% off the BitBox02 with code "GUY," your bank grade digital vault for your Bitcoin keys from Shiftcrypto.ch And $10 in sats for FREE by starting your automatic savings plan at SwanBitcoin.com/guy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bitcoinaudible/message

"Bitcoin (BTC, the currency) in its current form can scale – enough to process every txn in the world! It just needs the right combination of layer2s." - Paul Sztorc What would it look like if we could use sidechains today to scale Bitcoin to the worldwide payments capacity? Paul Sztorc, proponent and developer for Drivechains & BIP300 to bring this model to the Bitcoin ecosystem, lays out his vision for a future with the Thunder Network; sidechains with heavier data throughput to bridge to act as huge transaction aggregators that enables the quick deployment of any desired feature, an open landscape for design & privacy technology, & will allow Bitcoin to scale to every user in the world, and beyond. Sidechains for Scaling, Thunder Network: https://www.truthcoin.info/blog/thunder/ Check out the "Lessons from Bittorrent Series" covered on the show that was mentioned in the commentary: https://bitcoinaudible.com/why-bittorrent-mattered-lessons-for-crypto-1-of-4/ Check out tons of other great works & discussion at BitcoinAudible.com! Search the library for any topic or work you would like to hear, including other great pieces from Erik Cason. Don't forget your goodies from our awesome sponsors! 5% off the BitBox02 with code "GUY," your bank grade digital vault for your Bitcoin keys from Shiftcrypto.ch And $10 in sats for FREE by starting your automatic savings plan at SwanBitcoin.com/guy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bitcoinaudible/message

"Of course, “developing your own cryptosystem” is the purview of only cranks and researchers, so it was reasonably assumed that none of these “altcoins”, as they were called, could ever be plausibly presented for public use. Boy, were we ever wrong on that one" - Andrew Poelstra How did we find ourselves in an environment where people copy/paste "crypto tokens" on a daily basis, and foundational cryptographic infrastructure is tossed around like casino chips? Prior to the days of Bitcoin, no one would have ever taken such projects seriously, but enter the ability to make money off fools and everything changes. Dont miss an incredible piece from Bitcoin developer Andrew Poelstra atempting to break down the major flaws and failures of philosophy on the entirety of what is know today as "altcoins." A Treatise on Altcoins: https://download.wpsoftware.net/bitcoin/alts.pdf Check out tons of other great works & discussion at BitcoinAudible.com! Search the library for any topic or work you would like to hear, including other great pieces from Erik Cason. Don't forget your goodies from our awesome sponsors! 5% off the BitBox02 with code "GUY," your bank grade digital vault for your Bitcoin keys from Shiftcrypto.ch And $10 in sats for FREE by starting your automatic savings plan at SwanBitcoin.com/guy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bitcoinaudible/message

"Perhaps Bitcoin can help Americans reflect on our history and remember that our true glory, in Adams’s words, is “not dominion, but liberty,” and that our true march is “of the mind” and not the sword." - Alex Galdstein Happy Independence Day fellow Audionauts! This is the day to celebrate the American experiment and the ideals which it sought to achieve. An ideal of "all men created equal," individual liberties, freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and so many more revolutionary principles that have been the foundation for the outlaw of slavery, the civil rights movement, & human rights movements around the world. So where do we separate "America the idea" from "America the political system?" What was missed in the founding documents that allowed the experiment to still fail so many? Does Bitcoin have a role to play by re-empowering these core principles of individual liberty? Another brilliant piece from Alex Gladstein & Bitcoin Magazine, don't miss today's show! https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/bitcoin-and-the-american-idea Check out tons of other great works & discussion at BitcoinAudible.com! Search the library for any topic or work you would like to hear, including other great pieces from Erik Cason. Don't forget your goodies from our awesome sponsors! 5% off the BitBox02 with code "GUY," your bank grade digital vault for your Bitcoin keys from Shiftcrypto.ch And $10 in sats for FREE by starting your automatic savings plan at SwanBitcoin.com/guy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bitcoinaudible/message

We had an awesome discussion on Twitter spaces, getting some major Bitcoiners and Libertarians together to talk about the tools available to us in the endless fight for liberty, & why Bitcoin should be at the center of it all. Hope you guys enjoy this discussion as much as I did, and sorry for the minor audio hiccups and lack of censoring. As an open discussion there is some language so don't have your kids around if you don't want them to hear. Thanks to @BranchFloridian for putting this together and hope to be able to do this again soon! Check out tons of other great works & discussion at BitcoinAudible.com! Search the library for any topic or work you would like to hear, including other great pieces from Erik Cason. Don't forget your goodies from our awesome sponsors! 5% off the BitBox02 with code "GUY," your bank grade digital vault for your Bitcoin keys from Shiftcrypto.ch And $10 in sats for FREE by starting your automatic savings plan at SwanBitcoin.com/guy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bitcoinaudible/message

"Bitcoin over the last ten years has create a single global movement that is loyal to no nation-state, no government, no military anywhere on the planet; but towards an ethics of a commonality of wealth. Through the radical protection cryptography offers to this new form of property found within bitcoin, the bonds of a new commonwealth have been formed." - Erik Cason Another great piece from cypherpunk extraordinaire, Erik Cason. On the theological idea of money, the manifestation & understanding of human liberty external to the state apparatus, & how Bitcoin changes the nature of political law, forever. Get ready, the rabbit hole is about to get crazy. Dont' forget to check out tons of other great works at BitcoinAudible.com! Search the library for any topic or work you would like to hear, including other great pieces from Erik Cason. Don't forget your goodies from our awesome sponsors! 5% off the BitBox02 with code "GUY," your bank grade digital vault for your Bitcoin keys from Shiftcrypto.ch And $10 in sats for FREE by starting your automatic savings plan at SwanBitcoin.com/guy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bitcoinaudible/message

We've all heard the criticism, sound money can't work because people will simply "hoard it." Obviously, per the Keynesians' demands, it is critical that we incentivize consumption and investment or the economy will fall into chaos and poverty. But how sound is this idea really? Does a money that keeps its value and isn't debased REALLY destroy the economy? What if this statement is simply.... wrong? All this and more in today's Guy's Take to break down the concepts of natural deflation, its differences with credit deflation, the boogeyman it's been confused with, & what sound money gives to the economy that uses it. Some other great episodes mentioned in today's show to expand on the ideas & go further down the rabbit hole: The Use of Knowledge in Society https://bitcoinaudible.com/hayeks-use-of-knowledge-in-society-part-1-2/ Guy's Take #18 - A Story of Booms and Busts https://bitcoinaudible.com/a-story-about-booms-busts/ Guy's Take #36 - Walking Tall https://bitcoinaudible.com/guys-take-36-walking-tall/ Our amazing sponsors for today's show, keeping Bitcoin Audible alive! The BitBox02 hardware wallet for the trifecta of ease of use, security, & open source key storage. SwanBitcoin.com for the automatic Bitcoin savings plan, automatic withdrawal, & low fee sat stacking. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bitcoinaudible/message

"As Victor Hugo reminds us: nothing is as powerful as an idea whose time has come. Bitcoin is here to stay; and Bitcoin’s time is now." - DerGigi Another chapter in Gigi's upcoming book 21 Ways, today's article covers some of the prehistory, the origins, the breakthroughs, and the meaning of the Bitcoin system. Gigi always comes through with excellent work, and this one doesn't disappoint. Check out his patreon to stay up on his other projects and support his content. Plus the incredible body of work on his website at the links below. https://www.patreon.com/dergigi https://dergigi.com/2021/06/13/bitcoin-is-an-idea/ Explore the entire library of audio works at BitcoinAudible.com, plus vote for your favorites to be heard on the show! Our amazing sponsors for today's show, keeping Bitcoin Audible alive! The BitBox02 hardware wallet for the trifecta of ease of use, security, & open source key storage. SwanBitcoin.com for the automatic Bitcoin savings plan, automatic withdrawal, & low fee sat stacking. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bitcoinaudible/message

"Monetary repression continues to be hidden, and not spoken of in polite circles. The reality today for the 182 million people living in CFA nations is that while they may be politically independent in name, their economies and money are still under colonial rule, and foreign powers still abuse and prolong that relationship to squeeze and exploit as much value from their societies and geographies as possible." - Alex Gladstein Another tour de force from Gladstein, this time breaking down the dirty details of the oppressive CFA monetary regime used, much like the petrodollar, to control and consume resources from foreign nations into French coffers. A common story in monetary systems, it's used as a tool for power, privilege, & political control. Hear the stories on the ground of those who saw this colonialism, and how they hope to stop it. Another from the irreplaceable publication of BitcoinMagazine. Check out the original and other great pieces from Bitcoin Magazine below: https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/bitcoin-a-currency-of-decolonization Search for the many other pieces by Gladstein in the Bitcoin Audible Library: https://BitcoinAudible.com Follow the amazing people discussed and mentioned in this piece: https://twitter.com/Farida_N https://twitter.com/diopfode https://twitter.com/fpigeaud https://twitter.com/nssylla Our amazing sponsors for today's show, keeping Bitcoin Audible alive! The BitBox02 hardware wallet for the trifecta of ease of use, security, & open source key storage. SwanBitcoin.com for the automatic Bitcoin savings plan, automatic withdrawal, & low fee sat stacking Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bitcoinaudible/message

"As Victor Hugo reminds us: nothing is as powerful as an idea whose time has come. Bitcoin is here to stay; and Bitcoin’s time is now." - DerGigi Another chapter in Gigi's upcoming book 21 Ways, today's article covers some of the prehistory, the origins, the breakthroughs, and the meaning of the Bitcoin system. Gigi always comes through with excellent work, and this one doesn't disappoint. Check out his patreon to stay up on his other projects and support his content. Plus the incredible body of work on his website at the links below. https://www.patreon.com/dergigi https://dergigi.com/2021/06/13/bitcoin-is-an-idea/ Explore the entire library of audio works at BitcoinAudible.com, plus vote for your favorites to be heard on the show! Our amazing sponsors for today's show, keeping Bitcoin Audible alive! The BitBox02 hardware wallet for the trifecta of ease of use, security, & open source key storage. SwanBitcoin.com for the automatic Bitcoin savings plan, automatic withdrawal, & low fee sat stacking. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bitcoinaudible/message

"A deflationary monetary system of absolute hard money acts as a mirror for value creation. It is a compass to guide us toward a better economic path." - Aaron Segal From Bitcoin Magazine, we hit a fantastic piece on the nature of money as a tool for reducing informational entropy. Why a finite supply money, is ultimately the most pure form of money able to translate technological innovation into decreased uncertainty in an economic system. Don't miss Segal's "Bitcoin Information Theory" Check out the original and other great pieces at Bitcoin Magazine: https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/bitcoin-information-theory-bit The other excellent pieces mentioned that dig further into this topic, the ideas of pricing in an economy, & why our system has been skewed to strip the economic machine of growth and productivity: "The Capital Strip Mine" by Allen Farringtion: https://bitcoinaudible.com/the-capital-strip-mine/ "The Use of Knowledge in Society" by F.A. Hayek: https://bitcoinaudible.com/hayeks-use-of-knowledge-in-society-part-1-2/ And our amazing sponsors for today's show, keeping Bitcoin Audible alive! The BitBox02 hardware wallet for the trifecta of ease of use, security, & open source key storage. SwanBitcoin.com for the automatic Bitcoin savings plan, automatic withdrawal, & low fee sat stacking. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bitcoinaudible/message

"A network effect is an attribute of a company or other system such that as more people use the network, the network becomes exponentially more valuable for each user. It’s one of the strongest economic moats that a system can have against competitors." - Lyn Alden Another excellent piece today from the newsletter of Lyn Alden, making sense of network effects, what they are & how fundamental they are to success. Breaking down the network effects of Bitcoin and the state of the ecosystem and institutional adoption. And lastly its comparison to the rest of the “Crypto” industry and where we can or cannot compare them. Analyzing Bitcoin's Network Effect: https://www.lynalden.com/bitcoins-network-effect/ For the Ray Youssef panel mentioned, Bitcoin 2021: Onboarding One Billion Bitcoiners https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfvLz81EVhI And our lovely sponsors who make Bitcoin Audible possible: ShiftCrypto with the BitBox02 hardware wallet for sovereignty, simplicity, & security of your Bitcoin keys. Get 5% off with discount code "GUY" SwanBitcoin.com for your automatic, no hassle, & low cost Bitcoin savings plan. Set it once and it never stops stacking for your future self! $10 free sats for signing up at my ref link. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bitcoinaudible/message

“All this to say, there is no optimistic version of the future in which humanity does not use significantly more energy than it does today.” - Hodl’n Caulfield & Selene Lindstrom What is the connection between Bitcoin, human prosperity, and the fundamental process of commanding energy to solve our problems? Bitcoin isn’t just a monetary and financial solution, its also revolutionary in the simple fact that it replaces a problem of violence and authority, merely through the burning of energy. How could we make the case that not only should we not scorn this amazing feat, but that we should want far more energy used by the system, to protect far more people around the world from systemic corruption of money? Check out the original and drop some crazy applause on this one on medium: https://bitcoinandenergy.medium.com/bitcoin-mining-and-the-case-for-more-energy-90094ce25fac Don’t forget to follow the authors on Twitter for more of their future work: https://twitter.com/stackerintherye https://twitter.com/selenelindstr6 And a shout out to our amazing sponsors to the show: ShiftCrypto with the BitBox02 hardware wallet for sovereignty, simplicity, & security of your Bitcoin keys. Get 5% off with discount code "GUY" SwanBitcoin.com for your automatic, no hassle, & low cost Bitcoin savings plan. Set it once and it never stops stacking for your future self! $10 free sats for signing up at my ref link. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bitcoinaudible/message

Completely left the intro and guy's take section out of the publishing for last week's episode, so figured I would drop it just for those who might like to listen. No ads or any breaks for this one since I screwed up, lol. Enjoy --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bitcoinaudible/message

"For those with the curiosity to look, Bitcoin has emerged as a vast and mysterious space to explore with treasures, dangers, and untold potential." - Tomer Strolight Going through the incredible short, but profound pieces in the Why Bitcoin series by Tomer Strolight. An incredible walk through the many fundamental characteristics of Bitcoin. Why should we choose it, why is it backed by physics, why does its buying power keep rising, why is it the new frontier, and more in this first episode. Don't miss it! For more digging into what happened in El Salvador and what the legal tender dstatus means, check out the awesome SSL podcast we did with Tomer, Alex Gladstein, Brady Swenson, & myself earlier today. Careful not to get too bullish: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_WC-AU8df8 Then for diving deeper into Proof of Work, check out the great pieces by Hugo Nguyen mentioned in the commentary: Anatomy of Proof of Work: https://bitcoinaudible.com/anatomy-of-proof-of-work-part-1/ Bitcoin, Chance & Randomness: https://bitcoinaudible.com/bitcoin-chance-and-randomness-part-2/ ShiftCrypto with the BitBox02 hardware wallet for the secure, safe ship for sailing the open seas to this new frontier! And SwanBitcoin.com for the strong sails pointed in the right direction. Toward a sovereign future, auto stacking & DCA into Bitcoin --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bitcoinaudible/message

I may have gotten ahead of myself but the vote is happening right now in El Salvador's Congress. It's being discussed and read on the floor & in order to get this out as quickly as possible, we have the reading of the "Bitcoin Law" proposed and soon voted on in El Salvador. Enjoy. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bitcoinaudible/message

If you haven't seen it, don't miss out on this moment in history. Jack Mallers' announcement and speech at Bitcoin2021 on the massive moves they are making with Strike, the infrastructure being built in the developing world, & the move by the President of El Salvador to make Bitcoin a legal Tender within the country and make it part of the national strategy to bring financial inclusion, monetary independence, and an infrastructure that will take them into the future with Bitcoin. This is the beginning of some massive. Don't miss today's episode and the link below to dig more into this incredible development. Jack Mallers at Bitcoin 2021: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_59hrgTiRJU Tweets related to this news & read on this episode: https://twitter.com/WilliamSorianoH/status/1401737638290280452?s=20 https://twitter.com/nayibbukele/status/1401955382533165062?s=20 https://twitter.com/nayibbukele/status/1401622548396314631?s=20 https://twitter.com/nayibbukele/status/1401335885497524226?s=20 https://twitter.com/carlitosrejala/status/1401712725886132224?s=20 https://www.thestreet.com/crypto/bitcoin/panama-may-join-el-salvador-and-paraguay-in-bitcoin-adoption https://twitter.com/gabrielsilva8_7/status/1401965129051389958?s=20 https://twitter.com/FabioOstermann/status/1401988499893587968?s=20 And a shout out to our amazing sponsors to the show: ShiftCrypto with the BitBox02 hardware wallet for sovereignty, simplicity, & security of your Bitcoin keys. Get 5% off with discount code "GUY" SwanBitcoin.com for your automatic, no hassle, & low cost Bitcoin savings plan. Set it once and it never stops stacking for your future self! $10 free sats for signing up at my ref link. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bitcoinaudible/message

"If there is ever competition for the energy that the Bitcoin miners are buying, the miners turn off their machines, perhaps to turn them back on later in a real-time response to grid loads. This relationship is poorly understood by many, leading to a popular but incorrect assumption that Bitcoin is “wasting” energy that could be used for other projects." - Alex Gladstein Another amazing piece from Gladstein, this time breaking down the incentives and elements of Bitcoin and Bitcoin mining that has the potential to transform the developing world's capacity for capital accumulation, sustainable economic activity, & bootstrapping of renewable energy production and expansion of the much needed electrification. Don't miss this piece! Check out the original and Gladstein’s other incredible work below: https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/bitcoin-is-humanitarian-and-environmental A big thanks to BitcoinMagazine and the LTBNetwork for the invaluable & dedicated resource they have been to the Bitcoin community for so many years. And a shout out to our amazing sponsors to the show: ShiftCrypto with the BitBox02 hardware wallet for sovereignty, simplicity, & security of your Bitcoin keys. Get 5% off with discount code "GUY" SwanBitcoin.com for your automatic, no hassle, & low cost Bitcoin savings plan. Set it once and it never stops stacking for your future self! $10 free sats for signing up at my ref link. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bitcoinaudible/message

“At the core of economists’ fallacy is the belief that money is money by decree (because the state and its expert economists say so), which means they don’t fully recognise the power held by people’s collective decisions.” - Mick Morucci A Bitcoin Magazine read today on why it is that the modern anthropologist may actually have a better grasp of Bitcoin and its incredible potential, than the mainstream economist does. A fascinating perspective from Anthropologist & economist Mick Morucci, on the unique insight he brings from 2 different disciplines. Check out the original at the link below: https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/anthropologists-are-interested-in-bitcoin Wired For Story: https://www.amazon.com/Wired-Story-Writers-Science-Sentence/dp/1607742454/ref=pd_rhf_gw_p_t_1_FMXR Big thanks to our sponsors! ShiftCrypto for the secure, open source BitBox02 hardware wallet and other great tools for securing your Bitcoin keys and backups SwanBitcoin.com for the automatic, no hassle, no selling, set it and forget it Bitcoin savings plan. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bitcoinaudible/message

“Technologies of anonymous communication, anonymous currency, and reputation systems have been invented. They cannot be un-invented. These are all the ingredients needed to build a circular economy with strong privacy in cyber-space” - NoPara73 Today we dive back into some of the most important concepts in Bitcoin, and some of the fundamental goals Bitcoin was created to facilitate. Privacy, Fungibility, & anonymity. What are they, how do they relate to each other, and what can we do to preserve them within the Bitcoin system? Check out the original article and drop some epic applause on this piece on medium! https://nopara73.medium.com/privacy-fungibility-anonymity-451d029355f7 Follow nopara73 on Twitter: https://twitter.com/nopara73 An excellent discussion of the importance of privacy in today’s world with Glenn Greenwald: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcSlowAhvUk Big thanks to our sponsors! ShiftCrypto for the secure, open source BitBox02 hardware wallet and other great tools for securing your Bitcoin keys and backups SwanBitcoin.com for the automatic, no hassle, no selling, set it and forget it Bitcoin savings plan. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bitcoinaudible/message

"deflation is the natural order of a productive economy. If we were using a hard money standard like gold, for example, we would expect products to get cheaper over time relative to the value of our golden money, thanks to technological and productivity improvements over time, which make them cheaper relative to the number of labor hours required to produce them.” - Lyn Alden Concluding the amazing breakdown of the current macroeconomic conditions of the dollar, how much money is actually being injected into the system, and what inflationary/deflationary forces are at play to make sense of what out monetary future holds. Don't forget to check out the original to dig deeper down the rabbit hole on these topics & follow Lyn's incredible blog: https://www.lynalden.com/quantitative-easing-mmt-inflation/ Other of Lyn's great work from the show: 7 Misconceptions About Bitcoin: https://bitcoinaudible.com/7-misconceptions-about-bitcoin/ The Fraying of the Petrodollar System Part 1 & 2: https://bitcoinaudible.com/the-fraying-of-the-petrodollar-system-part-1/ https://bitcoinaudible.com/the-fraying-of-the-petrodollar-system-part-2/ Big thanks to our sponsors! ShiftCrypto for the secure, open source BitBox02 hardware wallet and other great tools for securing your Bitcoin keys and backups SwanBitcoin.com for the automatic, no hassle, no selling, set it and forget it Bitcoin savings plan. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bitcoinaudible/message

"Quantitative easing (QE) occurs when central banks, such as the U.S. Federal Reserve, create new money to buy government bonds or other securities. Some people fear that it will cause high inflation or even hyper-inflation and that it is essentially money-printing, while others suggest that it has no impact on inflation because the money that is newly-created or “printed” gets locked away... Based on history and math, the inflationary side of the argument is eventually correct, but with a lot of nuance along the way." - Lyn Alden Another amazing piece from Lyn Alden breaking down & "steel manning" the concepts of QE & MMT. How they claim to work in theory and when they are/are not “money printing” and what their major failures are. This is a great one for making sense of the macroeconomic situation and trying to wrap your head around some of these very vague and often purposefully obscure concepts around monetary policy to get down to the truth behind what’s happening. Check out the charts and other great links to dig deeper down the rabbit hole on these topics, or get a head start on tomorrows Part 2: https://www.lynalden.com/quantitative-easing-mmt-inflation/ 7 Misconceptions About Bitcoin: https://bitcoinaudible.com/7-misconceptions-about-bitcoin/ The Fraying of the Petrodollar System Part 1 & 2: https://bitcoinaudible.com/the-fraying-of-the-petrodollar-system-part-1/ https://bitcoinaudible.com/the-fraying-of-the-petrodollar-system-part-2/ Big thanks to our sponsors! ShiftCrypto for the secure, open source BitBox02 hardware wallet and other great tools for securing your Bitcoin keys and backups SwanBitcoin.com for the automatic, no hassle, no selling, set it and forget it Bitcoin savings plan. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bitcoinaudible/message

"Money condenses energy. Bitcoin is the first and only tool we have for converting electric energy to monetary energy. Now what does this do to the energy market?" - Knut Svanholm Amidst all the craziness around the Bitcoin & energy debate, its time to visit another great piece by returning author Knut Svnaholm of "Sovereignty Through Mathematics" and the amazing Citadel21 Magazine! A piece not only on the energy dynamic of Bitcoin, but also the waste and economic destruction caused by the central banking system. Listen to find out in today's read. Check out the original and the other great pieces on Citadel 21 at the link below: https://www.citadel21.com/orange-is-the-new-green Mentioned in the show was the amazing piece from Hayek "The Use of Knowledge in Society": https://bitcoinaudible.com/hayeks-use-of-knowledge-in-society-part-1-2/ Thanks so much to our sponsors who make this show possible: ShiftCrypto for the secure, open source BitBox02 hardware wallet and other great tools for securing your Bitcoin keys and backups SwanBitcoin.com for the automatic, no hassle, no selling, set it and forget it Bitcoin savings plan. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bitcoinaudible/message

The price took a near 30% dump today. So let's talk about it. A short episode today while I take care of my pup. Have you been distraught with the current price swings? That only means you are doing something wrong, or you don't yet understand what you are buying into. Conviction comes with experience & knowledge. Today you gain experience, Bitcoin Audible will help you with your knowledge --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bitcoinaudible/message

“Their goals were to separate money from governments and corporations, check the growth of the global surveillance state, and preserve human rights in an increasingly digital age. Satoshi Nakamoto’s greatest trick was to animate these aspirations into something that looks like and functions as digital gold.” - Alex Gladstein Another brilliant piece from Gladstein on why the Number Go Up technology is just the facade on the Freedom Go Up foundation of Bitcoin. As corporations, banks, & even governments adopt Bitcoin out of their own self-interest, they will unknowingly be stripping themselves of the asymmetry of power they currently hold over money. By transforming greed into freedom, Bitcoin will liberate the world. Bitcoin is a Trojan horse For Freedom: https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/bitcoin-is-a-trojan-horse-for-freedom A big thanks to our awesome sponsors & partners: Bitcoin Magazine for their amazing content and sharing Bitcoin Audible on the LTBNetwork ShiftCrypto for the secure, open source BitBox02 hardware wallet and other great tools for securing your Bitcoin keys and backups SwanBitcoin.com for the automatic, no hassle, no selling, set it and forget it Bitcoin savings plan. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bitcoinaudible/message

“In my lifetime I have seen many technologies emerge. The Internet. Pocket super computers. Digital music. And the old guard fought it, tried to capture it, and eventually learned to live in harmony with it in each case. The smart ones have even started to make money again in spite of it. One thing I have seen over and over is technology will find a way.” - cAPSLOCK How we fail as humans to recognize new patterns, and constantly project old, outdated models onto truly unique things which allows us to so badly misunderstand or hide the best path forward from ourselves. Bitcoin doesn’t care about our narratives, and Bitcoin will do ALL THE THINGS! Don’t miss an awesome post from cAPSLOCK, link below to explore further: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=178336.msg56754513 Check out this awesome tool mentioned in the post: https://coinos.io/home Don't forget to get your BitBox02 with discount code "GUY" for 5% off at guyswann.com/bitbox You should already be stacking, but take the work out of it by do it automatically with Swanbitcoin.com/guy (free sats to start your plan) --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bitcoinaudible/message

"only 13% of our planet’s population is born into the dollar, euro, Japanese yen, British pound, Australian dollar, Canadian dollar or Swiss Franc. The other 87% are born into autocracy or considerably less trustworthy currencies. 4.3 billion people live under authoritarianism, and 1.2 billion people live under double- or triple-digit inflation." - Alex Gladstein Another brilliant piece from Alex Gladstein and Bitcoin Magazine, this one on the incredible privilege of those inside the dollar bubble, looking out and claiming Bitcoin is useless or is bad for the world. They stand like hypocrites living without any of the problems that Bitcoin is specifically designed to fix, and is fixing. Three stories of those who live and experience the *real* world, give us a very different view of Bitcoin, & why it is critical for all of our futures that we stand behind it and see it succeed. A thanks to @RD_btc for the donation that boosted this right to the top of the list. I hope I did you proud! Check Your Financial Privilege: https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/check-your-financial-privilege A massive thanks to the incredible output and work coming from Bitcoin Magazine. They are a resource like now other for publishing and spread this content as far as possible. Don't forget to get your BitBox02 with discount code "GUY" for 5% off at guyswann.com/bitbox You should already be stacking, but take the work out of it by do it automatically with Swanbitcoin.com/guy (free sats to start your plan) --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bitcoinaudible/message

"How does anyone censor something abstract and intangible; something that can consist of an arrangement of numbers and letters, and can be transported via any medium? What do you do? Ban pen and paper? Phone calls and the spoken word? Smoke signals? Morse code? To what end?" - Grubles Are you hoping to censor Bitcoin? To stop people from transacting, or to prevent Bitcoin from being useable inside your country. Good luck, Bitcoin was built for just such a scenario. You certainly have a task ahead of you. A great piece today from Grubles on why its not quite the easiest of tasks to censor Bitcoin: https://notgrubles.medium.com/one-does-not-simply-censor-bitcoin-89dc4a32ba2b Don't forget to get your BitBox02 with discount code "GUY" for 5% off at guyswann.com/bitbox You should already be stacking, but take the work out of it by do it automatically with Swanbitcoin.com/guy (free sats to start your plan) --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bitcoinaudible/message

“one of the main reasons for Bitcoin’s success is something that resonates with us as humans on a much deeper level: the primal elements of its brand, which when combined, turn it into a belief system." - Paulo Sacramento Today we go deeper than the technical aspects of Bitcoin, less about the code and innovation itself, & more about the human element. What is it about Bitcoin that connects it to the primal elements inside us? What makes Bitcoin not a mere technology, but an ideology? And what can it tell us about Bitcoin's long term staying power? The Seven Primal Elements of the Bitcoin Brand: https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/the-seven-primal-elements-of-bitcoin Mentioned in the episode to explore the topic further: Sally Hogshead, Fascinate The Cryptoconomy Holiday Calendar Don't forget to get your BitBox02 with discount code "GUY" for 5% off at guyswann.com/bitbox You should already be stacking, but take the work out of it by do it automatically with Swanbitcoin.com/guy (free sats to start your plan) --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bitcoinaudible/message

No matter how often we cover these ideas, it still seems astonishingly common for new people to fall into the same old fallacies and the same misguided thinking. In this episode I try to cover all the major problems with the "raise the blocksize" mentality, and why its thinking incorrectly about what the system even provides, and most importantly how it provides it. We cover 7-9 key points and ways to think about scaling, the Bitcoin network, & what the future of it might be given enough time. Bitcoin is the tortoise, not the hare. And the problem isn't about building a VISA competitor, its about building a state-proof monetary base. Lets jump in! Don't forget to get your BitBox02 with discount code "GUY" for 5% off at guyswann.com/bitbox You should already be stacking, but take the work out of it by do it automatically with Swanbitcoin.com/guy (free sats to start your plan) --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bitcoinaudible/message

"Bitcoin’s security guarantee comes from the direct conversion of unforgeable energy into a fixed supply unit on an incorruptible monetary network. There is no alternative that exists that is more sound, efficient, effective and rooted in the physical laws of the very universe itself." - Aleks Svetski What is the true nature of our government systems and what are the consequences of collectivism. These are not only fundamental questions to understanding the problems of society today, but their exploration also enlightens how these very fallacies & failed systems are propped up by the nature of fiat money itself. For the original article with lots of links and graphics to expand on the discussion, check out the link below: https://svetski.medium.com/fiat-fascism-and-communism-d185e66733b Other great works mentioned in this episode to dig further into these ideas: Anatomy of the State [Rothbard]: Part 1 - https://bitcoinaudible.com/anatomy-of-the-state-part-1/ Part 2 - https://bitcoinaudible.com/anatomy-of-the-state-part-2/ The Use of Knowledge in Society [Hayek]: Part 1 - https://bitcoinaudible.com/hayeks-use-of-knowledge-in-society-part-1-2/ Part 2 - https://bitcoinaudible.com/use-of-knowledge-in-society-part-2/ Guy's Take #36 - Walking Tall: https://bitcoinaudible.com/guys-take-36-walking-tall/ It Starts With Food Don't forget to get your BitBox02 with discount code "GUY" for 5% off at guyswann.com/bitbox You should already be stacking, but take the work out of it by do it automatically with Swanbitcoin.com/guy (free sats to start your plan) --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bitcoinaudible/message

"It is truly impossible for the petrodollar system to be green when it is based on black gold." - Alex Gladstein Today we have another brilliant piece by Alex Galdstein, published on Bitcoin Magazine about the Petrodollar system, how it came about, why it has stuck around, & the horrible costs of maintaining it that so few are willing to acknowledge. Check out the original at the link below plus so many other great works at Bitcoin Magazine: https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/the-hidden-costs-of-the-petrodollar Don't forget to get your BitBox02 with discount code "GUY" for 5% off at guyswann.com/bitbox You should already be stacking, but take the work out of it by do it automatically with Swanbitcoin.com/guy (free sats to start your plan) --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bitcoinaudible/message

Hyperbitcoinization is defined by the Nakamoto institute as “a voluntary transition from an inferior currency to a superior one, and its adoption is a series of individual acts of entrepreneurship rather than a single monopolist that games the system.” - Knut Svanholm The FOMO is going to be out of this world, & both the knowledge and networks you build prior to the flood, will be endlessly valuable when or if that time comes. Both due to the nature of Bitcoin's supply, & amplified by the disaster & potential collapse of the fiat financial system, hyperbitcoinization could be much closer than we think. Are you prepared? Check out the amazing Citadel21 publication and all the incredible work they put out at the link below: https://www.citadel21.com/you-are-not-prepared Don't forget to get your BitBox02 with discount code "GUY" for 5% off at guyswann.com/bitbox You should already be stacking, but take the work out of it by do it automatically with Swanbitcoin.com/guy (free sats to start your plan) --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bitcoinaudible/message

"To be sure, by the waning days of 2010, Satoshi Nakamoto was still acknowledged for inventing Bitcoin, and was respected for growing the world's first decentralized digital currency into a $1 million market. But as frustrations with his authority and availability built, it became all too common for users to decry Satoshi the admin[X], Satoshi the bottleneck[X], Satoshi the dictator[X]." - Pete Rizzo Dont miss another incredible journey through Bitcoin's history by Pete Rizzo, in honor of the anniversary of Satoshi's disappearance in just a few days. What did people think of Satoshi, what really happened in the transition from Satoshi to Gavin, and what critical moments in Bitcoin history, may have led to the disappearance of its mysterious creator? A must read/listen. Check out the full article and incredible list of citations for further digging at BitcoinMagazine.com below: https://bitcoinmagazine.com/technical/what-happened-when-bitcoin-creator-satoshi-nakamoto-disappeared A huge thanks to Bitcoin Magazine for their always amazing content! Don't forget to get your BitBox02 with discount code "GUY" for 5% off at guyswann.com/bitbox You should already be stacking, but take the work out of it by do it automatically with Swanbitcoin.com/guy (free sats to start your plan) --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bitcoinaudible/message